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### [Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 1 (Melissa Conroy)](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-1-melissa-conroy/)

September 28, 2020 — By Melissa Conroy

In June 2019 the Congregation for Catholic Education released a document entitled “Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question

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### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 3 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-3-raji-singh-soni/)

August 13, 2017 — By Raji Singh Soni

The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here, the second one here. As Julia Reinhard Lupton argues It

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### [Review – François Laruelle’s General Theory of Victims (John Matthew Allison)](/religioustheory/posts/review-francois-laruelles-general-theory-of-victims-john-matthew-allison/)

November 17, 2016 — By John Matthew Allison

*Laruelle, François. General Theory of Victims. Translated by Jessie Hock and Alex Dubilet. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0745679617 It highlights

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November 2, 2016 — By Jeff Appel

This article was originally a paper delivered at the conference “Reclaiming the Unconscious – On The Intersection of Psychoanalysis With the Humanities,”

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